Analysis of The Three Ponds in Hellbrunn
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Around the flowers the blowflies reel,
Around the pale flowers on dull flood,
Go away! Go away! The air burns!
In the depth the fervor of putrefaction glows!
The pasture weeps, the silence stares,
A sultry vapor brews on the waters.
Go away! Go away! It is the place
For black toads' disgusting rut.
Images of clouds, flowers, and people
Sing, sing, joyful world!
Smiling innocence reflects you -
Everything it likes becomes heavenly!
It amicably transforms darkness into light,
Distant things become near! O joyful you!
Sun, clouds, flowers and people
Breathe the peace of God in you.
The waters shimmer greenish-blue
And calmly the cypresses breathe,
The evening sounds bell-deep -
Then the depth grows immeasurably.
The moon rises, the night turns blue,
Blossoms in the reflection of the floods -
An enigmatic Sphinx face,
On which my heart wants to bleed to death.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010011 010110111 101101011 001010111 01010101 0101011010 1011011101 1110101 1001110010 11101 10100011 101101100 110000110011 1010111101 1110010 1011101 01010101 010011 010111 10110100 01100111 1000010101 101011 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 899 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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